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Perplexity

Commercial Sales Manager

Perplexity is hiring a Commercial Sales Manager for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $300k-$380k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.

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About the role

As a Commercial Sales Manager at Perplexity, you'll lead a team of Commercial Account Executives selling Perplexity Enterprise and Computer to small and mid-sized organizations. You'll be responsible for hiring and ramping the team, coaching sellers through efficient, high-velocity sales cycles, and owning team revenue targets.

Responsibilities
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of Commercial Account Executives, providing regular feedback to drive individual and team performance

  • Own team revenue, logo, and activity targets, with accountability for pipeline creation, deal velocity, and forecast accuracy

  • Hire, onboard, and ramp new Account Executives in partnership with Recruiting and Enablement

  • Coach the team on outbound prospecting, account prioritization, and converting existing self-serve customers into Enterprise relationships

  • Help AEs qualify with discipline and run efficient sales cycles from discovery through close, partnering with Enterprise AEs when an account warrants a larger motion

  • Run a regular cadence of 1:1s, pipeline reviews, and deal reviews, maintaining accurate Salesforce data and forecasts

  • Partner with Enablement, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and RevOps to translate field feedback into action

You may be a good fit if
  • 5+ years of SaaS sales experience selling to small and mid-sized organizations, with 2+ years directly managing quota-carrying Account Executives

  • A track record of meeting or exceeding team revenue targets in a high-growth environment

  • Experience hiring, ramping, and developing sellers

  • Experience coaching teams to generate their own pipeline through outbound and product-led signals in a high-velocity sales motion

  • Strong command of Salesforce, pipeline management, and forecasting

  • Background selling technical products, ideally AI, data, or infrastructure

  • Comfort operating without an established playbook

How we rate this

Commercial Sales Manager at Perplexity rates 36 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.

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